Energy Resources TTT

Question 1

Fracking

Answer 1

drilling into the ground and spraying a fluid into rock which then releases gas

Question 2

Shale

Answer 2

rocks that contain natural gas and oil

Question 3

Marcellus Shale

Answer 3

shale in PA, OH, WV, MD, NY, VA, KY, TN which was named after the New York town it was found in

Question 4

Land Lease

Answer 4

gas and oil companies pay people who own land above a shale to frack on their property

Question 5

Green Building

Answer 5

buildings that are eco-friendly

Question 6

LEED Building

Answer 6

stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, program which notices green buildings

Question 7

Urban Heat Island

Answer 7

an area in an urban setting which has higher temperatures than areas around it because of the use of concrete and metal buildings, causes high usage of air conditioning

Question 8

Open Pit Mining

Answer 8

mining that doesn’t occur underground, digs holes at most 200 feet deep to mine, forms quarries

Question 9

Strip Mining

Answer 9

big construction machines are used to remove strips of the surface of the Earth

Question 10

Room and Pillar Mining

Answer 10

mining that occurs in rooms underground, coal is mined and excess material forms pillars

Question 11

Reclamation

Answer 11

undoing what mining did to the land, restoring land to its original state

Question 12

Nonrenewable Energy

Answer 12

energy that can’t be reused or renewed within a person’s lifetime

Question 13

Coal

Answer 13

carbonized plant material forms a black or brown rock

Question 14

Oil

Answer 14

methane molecules and decaying algae that is millions of years old

Question 15

Natural Gas

Answer 15

methane molecules and decaying algae that is millions of years old

Question 16

Fouling/Oiling

Answer 16

an animal or plant is injured by an oil spill

Question 17

Oil Toxicity

Answer 17

hazardous compounds in oil

Question 18

Proton

Answer 18

can be found in the nucleus of an atom, a positively charged particle

Question 19

Electron

Answer 19

can be found outside of an atom, a negatively charged particle

Question 20

Neutron

Answer 20

can be found in the nucleus of an atom, has no charge

Question 21

Isotope

Answer 21

an atom that has the normal number of protons but an unusual number of neutrons

Question 22

Radioactive Isotope

Answer 22

atom with unusual number of neutrons which causes its nucleus to be unstable

Question 23

Fission

Answer 23

lots of energy is released when a nucleus is split into two separate nuclei

Question 24

Fusion

Answer 24

two nuclei combine to form one nucleus which causes energy to be released

Question 25

Chain Reaction

Answer 25

one action causes more to happen

Question 26

Half Life

Answer 26

time in which it takes an isotope to lose half of its radioactivity

Question 27

Renewable Resource

Answer 27

energy that can be reused or renewed within a person's lifetime

Question 28

Hydropower

Answer 28

water that is falling spins a turbine because of its energy

Question 29

Wind Power

Answer 29

windmills spin to power a generator

Question 30

Geothermal Energy

Answer 30

using the steam and heat below the Earth's surface to power turbines which power generators

Question 31

Biomass

Answer 31

live organisms' create organic substances, the organic substances are used for energy